– Sunday Night Football was the highest rated prime time show for the third TV season in a row, which we’re in for at least another 2-3 minutes being added to to the “I Hate My Self (For Loving You)”-based intro this fall. [NBC Sports]

– Michael Vick has abdicated the starting job (maybe abdicated isn’t the right word to use here, as he was never the starter in New York to begin with), to Geno Smith. Maybe “Michael Vick knows he’s not going to win the starting job during training camp but he’s there in case Smith falls apart by Week 3″ works better for a slug line. [NJ.com]

– Speaking of Michael Vick, it’s worth noting that one of the “Vicktory Dogs” rehabilitated by Best Friends has finally passed all of its socialization tests and is now able to go home with the family that adopted him four years ago. The Oklahoma couple had been visiting the dog at the Best Friends sanctuary in Utah every three or four months in anticipation of giving him his forever home. (Editor’s note – I adopted my dog from Best Friends and am pretty proud of all the work they do at the sanctuary. Don’t give up on the athlete, don’t give up on the dogs.) [BestFriends]

– Marshawn Lynch didn’t go with the rest of the Seahawks to visit the White House this week, but his mother says he offered up a fine “LOL” via text message when told President Obama was sad he was not there. [NFL.com]

– It’s not the fact that people are making unlicensed Johnny Football t-shirts that bothers me, it’s that hip Cleveland has embraced high-waisted jeans. No. They didn’t look good on your mothers and, speaking as one of you, they do not do an Industrial Belt women any favors. Just stop it. [Via Michael Singer]

I­m mak­ing ­over $­1­3k a month working ­part tim­e. I kept hea­ring other p­eople tell me­ how much m­oney they can ma­ke­ online­ so I d­ecide­d to look int­o­ it. Wel­, it was all tru­e and ha­s totally ch­anged­ my life. ­This is­ wha­t I do,

High waisted jeans are in everywhere amongst the under 20 set. I went with my son to a concert two weekends ago and every teenaged girl there was one can of Aquanet short of 1985, fashionwise. It was all high waisted jeans and croptops.

High-waisted jeans are a scourge on society yet again. Nobody looks good in them yet all the young kids are wearing them. It didn’t look good in the 80s and it doesn’t look good now but the youth are too dumb to realize it.

If I’m not gainfully employed by the start of training camp, I think I might just attend every Jets practice with a giant poster of that dog until Vick gets cut. I bet Rex is a dog person- we already know of his fondness for little piggies.